This demonstrates the point that select and poll are workarounds for
the lack of threading support in Unix. They aren't needed if you use
a threads facility (or a separate process for each thread you need).
Once you have threads you can stick to the intuitive synchronous model
of system calls, which has always effectively handled waking one of
multiple waiters.
Off topic, I would like to pick a nit:
accept() is a system call. accept(2) is not a system call, it is a
manual page. One doesn't block on accept(2), one *reads* accept(2)
to find out how to use accept().
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